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Trump Hotel Tower Chicago under construction (photo 2006 released to public domain via wikipedia) – mentioned in NY AG filing: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/letitia-james-trump-filing-january-18-2022/e4038cab1ecf788a/full.pdf

It’s possible that it was simply too much for Ivana Trump’s heart to watch her beloved children forced to testify in the January 6th hearings and additional New York tax-fraud hearings. However, why, then, was she allegedly going to St. Tropez (France) on the very day that they were scheduled to testify, under oath, rather than being there to console them afterwards? The July 15th hearing was scheduled over a month ago. Ivana was a partner in Donald Trump’s earlier business dealings, and could have hypothetically handled anything dirty, leaving Donald’s hands clean. We may never know what secrets she carried to her grave.

Based on recent archival information from the Czech archives, Ivana could have been a foreign intelligence agent (see links further below).

When they were first married (m 1977-1992), Trump’s lawyer was Roy Cohn, who represented high ranking members of New York organized crime (Italian mafia). Cohn died in 1986. Notably, Ivana’s last meal prior to an apparent heart attack and being found dead at the bottom of the stairs was at an Italian restaurant.

While, the New York investigation is clearly a “witch-hunt”, this doesn’t preclude the possibility that they were engaged in tax evasion-fraud. And, they could be forced to pay significant amounts of back taxes.

“Ivana Trump was set to leave New York for St. Tropez, France Friday in what would have been her first trip since the COVID-19 pandemic, her best friend told Page Six”. https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/what-we-know-about-ivana-trumps-death-so-far/

“NEW YORK, June 8 (Reuters) – Donald Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, have agreed to testify starting July 15 in a New York state civil investigation into the former U.S. president’s business practices.” https://web.archive.org/web/20220608222310/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adult-children-agree-testify-ny-civil-probe-document-2022-06-08/

“New York AG James says Trump’s company misled banks, tax officials” By A Martínez, Ryan Lucas Wednesday, January 19, 2022 • 7:51 AM EST
“James alleges that Trump’s business inflated the value of his properties and misstated his personal worth in representations made to lenders, insurance brokers and others. And the purpose of this, basically, the New York attorney general says, was to obtain financial benefits, such as loans, insurance coverage and tax deductions. The nearly 160-page filing was made in support of James’ effort to see Trump and… his adult children, Ivanka and Don Jr., deposed under oath. James says in the filing that her office hasn’t decided at this point whether to bring a civil lawsuit in connection with these allegations. But she says investigators need to question Trump and his eldest children as part of this probe.” https://text.npr.org/1074031926

This seems to be the main filing, but is only 115 pages long: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/letitia-james-trump-filing-january-18-2022/e4038cab1ecf788a/full.pdf
Subpoena https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21172721/letitia-james-trump-lawsuit-stipulation-subpoena-of-donald-trump-jr-ivanka-trump.pdf
Other filings: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21172721/letitia-james-trump-lawsuit-stipulation-subpoena-of-donald-trump-jr-ivanka-trump.pdf
Filing https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/filed_-_mol_681.pdf

“A person familiar with the matter” says that the testimony had been rescheduled from Friday, as originally agreed, to next week, according to Reuters: “Donald Trump, adult children to testify in New York civil probe next week”, By Karen Freifeld, New York, Reuters, July 13, 2022 “Trump is expected to testify in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices next week, not on Friday as previously agreed, according to a person familiar with the matter. Trump’s daughter Ivanka, and son Donald Jr. also will be questioned under oath next week, the person said. A June 8 court-ordered agreement had called for all three to appear for testimony starting on Friday, July 15, and concluding by the following week…“ https://web.archive.org/web/20220715110436/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-donald-trump-adult-children-to-testify-in-new-york-civil-probe-next/

“A little tired’: Ivana Trump spent final hours dining at New York restaurant
A source has revealed how Ivana Trump spent her final hours before being found dead from cardiac arrest.” July 15, 2022 – 6:16PM “Ivana Trump spent her final hours eating at her favourite New York Italian restaurant… Paola Alavian, who owns Altesi’s… said the 73-year-old “ordered only a small amount of food” before being found dead hours later.” https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-deaths/a-little-tired-ivana-trump-spent-final-hours-dining-at-new-york-restaurant/news-story/1b8852b43b74c9accfbc04e726824491

“She worked alongside her husband in developing Trump Tower, his signature building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, and other high-profile projects such as the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Times said”. See: ”Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump who helped build his empire, dies at 73” By Kanishka Singh and Daniel Trotta, July 15, 2022 1.25 am EDT https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ivana-trump-first-wife-donald-trump-dies-73-2022-07-14/

“Trump, children are ordered to testify in N.Y. attorney general probe” By Karen Freifeld and Jonathan Stempel https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-children-are-ordered-testify-ny-attorney-general-probe-2022-02-17/

“Trump, adult children to testify in NY civil probe next week”
PICTURES, WED JUL 13, 2022, 1:48PM EDT https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/trump-adult-children-to-testify-in-ny-ci-idUSKBN2OO1KU

“Trump’s Business May Go On Trial On Tax Charges Just Before The 2022 Elections” By Andrea Bernstein, Ilya Marritz, Hansi Lo Wang Updated Monday, September 20, 2021 • 1:38 PM EDT Heard on Morning Edition https://text.npr.org/1037035597

“New York probing whether Donald Trump and the Trump Organization manipulated asset values” By Jonathan Stempel, August 24, 2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-new-york-lawsuit-idINKBN25K1XM

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-children-are-ordered-testify-ny-attorney-general-probe-2022-02-17/

“Here’s a Name to Remember: All County Building Supply & Maintenance” By Kevin Drum, October 5, 2018 6:00 AM https://web.archive.org/web/20181006124743/https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/heres-a-name-to-remember-all-county-building-supply-maintenance/
Mentioned in the book by Trump’s niece, who has a clear vendetta.

Ivana might have been a key witness, if New York decided to pursue these older back taxes
“Why hasn’t New York charged Donald Trump for tax fraud?
While New York state attempts to make President Donald Trump’s tax returns available to Congress, some might wonder why New York prosecutors haven’t charged him with tax fraud. City & State took a look at the possibilities and limitations for prosecuting Trump over his questionable tax history”. By ANNIE MCDONOUGH MAY 9, 2019
Excerpt: “There’s a statute of limitations on how far back they can go in charging criminal tax fraud. And so all of the information that The New York Times has found that it’s made public is outside of the criminal statute of limitations, which precludes the state of New York or the city of New York from charging criminal tax fraud.” …
Even with the statute of limitations long expired, there is some action that New York could take, based on the information revealed in the Times’ October report. There is no statute of limitations for seeking back taxes or civil penalties for tax fraud, and while Vance doesn’t have the authority to pursue civil penalties, they could be sought by the state attorney general or the state Department of Taxation.
Still, pursuing civil penalties would be an uphill climb and it may be unlikely. “The problem is that it all dates back 15, 20 years, and even though The New York Times has, they say, more than 100,000 (pages of) documents, the older it gets, the harder it is to collect,” Cords said. “It gets harder and harder to find enough of the witnesses to prove it, it gets harder to prove the intent.” https://web.archive.org/web/20220526141233/https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2019/05/why-hasnt-new-york-charged-donald-trump-for-tax-fraud/177371/

Czech Secret Police Files

It appears that Trump’s (now former) inlaws acted as informants to the Czech secret police, who in turn worked with the KGB (where Putin used to work). They lived in Trump Tower for 6 months of the year, during the Cold War. And, his children stayed there for weeks at a time in the summer. It’s where they became hunters: “A Prague-based skiing associate and secret police collaborator is revealed in the documents to have met numerous times with Ivana Trump during her visits to Czechoslovakia in the 1980s, now as an American citizen. The agent who reported on her went under the code names of “Langr” and “Chod”
[…]
“The archives also reveal a file named after Ivana’s father Miloš Zelníček, who was monitored by the StB. During a trip to the US for Ivana’s wedding Miloš Zelníček was subject to an StB-ordered search of his possessions at the airport, interpreted as a warning shot that cooperation was the only way such trips would be permitted in the future…. Records also suggest that after 1978 a so-called “operative file” was established on Ivana Trump, but researchers have yet to locate it…” Excerpted from: “CZECHOSLOVAK SECRET POLICE FILES REVEAL INTEREST IN TRUMP COUPLE“, by Dominik Jůn 02-12-2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20201108173433/https://english.radio.cz/czechoslovak-secret-police-files-reveal-interest-trump-couple-8207116

When visiting back home in 1988, “Ivana Trump allegedly said she believed U.S. embassy staffers were following her. The fact that she was supposed to meet with a Czechoslovak security official during the trip added to her nervousness, the police file stated.” See: “Secret 1988 police file says Trump was sure he would win presidency in 1996” By Karel Janicek, AP, Thursday, January 12, 2017 6:12PM EST https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/secret-1988-police-file-says-trump-was-sure-he-would-win-presidency-in-1996-1.3239002

“Czechoslovakia ramped up spying on Trump in late 1980s, seeking US intel, Exclusive: aided by Ivana Trump’s father, intelligence service with KGB ties targeted high-level government information, files show” By Luke Harding in Prague, Mon 29 Oct 2018 06.00 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/29/trump-czechoslovakia-communism-spying

“The StB discovered that Ivana was no longer a model and was now “helping her husband in his business activities” – designing the interiors of Trump-financed buildings. Donald Jr had two nannies – one American, one Swiss – and had recently fractured his leg. And: “Her husband is connected to the election campaign of the current US president [Jimmy] Carter”. The StB’s source was Ivana’s father. The note, typed up by Lt Josef Knopp, said the agency would give Mrs Trump “operational attention” during her stay in Zlín. Intriguingly, it was copied to the 23rd section of the first directorate in Prague, which was responsible for running “illegals”, or deep-cover agents abroad. Its most famous asset, Karl Koecher, was embedded inside the CIA…” Excerpted from: “‘A very different world’ – inside the Czech spying operation on Trump
Exclusive: files reveal Trump was the target of an extensive spying operation in the late 1980s by the country’s intelligence service, with ‘friends’ from the KGB”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/29/czechoslovakia-spied-on-trump-to-exploit-ties-to-highest-echelons-of-us-power

“The Kingfisher Secret: Was Ivana a Russian spy? How the anonymous Trump-inspired novel came to be” By Simon Houpt, October 17, 2018 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-the-kingfisher-secret-how-the-trump-inspired-anonymously-written/

“10 EAST 64TH STREET CORP.
Company Number
1638934
Status
Active
Incorporation Date
26 May 1992 (about 30 years ago)
Company Type
DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATION
Jurisdiction
New York (US)
Registered Address
* ATTN: GARY M. LYMAN, ESQ., 885 THIRD AVENUE, 20TH FLOOR
* NEW YORK
* 10022
* NY
* United States
Previous Names
* 10 EAST 64TH STREET CORP.
Directors / Officers
* IVANA TRUMP, chief executive officer
* REITLER KAILAS & ROSENBLATT LLC, dos process agent
Registry Page
https://appext20.dos.ny.gov/corp_publ…
Source New York Department of State, https://appext20.dos.ny.gov/corp_publ…, 8 Jul 2022 https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/1638934